Sunday, February 27. 2011

Again there was a large turnout of enthusiastic volunteers at the Barn 4 shops today. Here is some of the work - - -

Berlin Woes

The BIG JOB in the wood shop was to run a handful - no two handfuls - no, more than two handfuls, of windows for the CRT 1797 through the Berlin sander. Tim Peters has been making these new frames for a few weeks and it was time to get to the the next phase. The machine was set up and some time spent making some fine adjustments based on the last job run through this machine.

In short order it was determined that we need to pay some attention to the abrasive media wrapping the third drum. I am on the floor reaching into the end of the drum, Tim is on the deck reaching in, and Bill Moran is turning the drum by hand to get at the needed areas.

Of course, an assortment of tools were dropped into the innards of the machine in the process, in places you could not possibly get them into if you tried. Dan Fenlaciki dropped by and helped a lot with a new set of eyes and outlook on how we could get to a particularly stuck dropped screwdriver to remove it.

Production

Well, we did some good. Tim snapped this pic with my camera while I was feeding the new frames in, and Bill Moran was acting as the 'catcher'.

Kansas City - -

Mike Stauber and Frank Sirinek were cleaning off a piece of interior trim from our Kansas City PCC car. In this case, trying to get an unblemished panel for a good color sample for having new paint custom mixed. Look for more work on this car later in the year.

Trim Routing

John Faulhaber was busy on the router trimming the profile beading on 22 new stiles for the IC 3996 diner windows. This task is a necessary step to be able to start the final dry fit of the new frames.

Step Boxes

Tom Windmeier (and Jim W) were out working on RUN TWO for another six new step boxes.

Diner Trim

Tim Peters and Buzz Morisette were routing roundovers on many pieces of new trim for our diner interior. They are using a SPRINGBOARD on the router table, something new for us, and which improves the ease of setup, consistency of the finished molding, and safety when routing small pieces. Buzz made this jig earlier in the day.

Max Tyms was out and working on electrical conduit installation in the shop annex area. There were several other familiar faces engaged in their projects, but you get the idea. It was busy and productive.

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Brian L. about The Old Bag and the Silver BeaverTue, 03-17-2015 21:34Display first, operation later. It
needs to be watertight to be on
display with the streamliners in
yard 5, then we can start working
on putting the [...]

Roger Kramer about The Old Bag and the Silver BeaverTue, 03-17-2015 19:04Hello David S We would love to
have the Silver Pony in operation.
At this time the coach dept does
not have enough volunteers and $ to
complete [...]

David S about The Old Bag and the Silver BeaverTue, 03-17-2015 15:39On display? No plans for it to ever
become operational? I know it
wouldn't exactly "fit in" with the
heavyweights, but I bet it would be
very popular [...]

Brian L. about The Old Bag and the Silver BeaverSun, 03-15-2015 13:18We have 3 "modernized"
Heavyweights, IC 2804, GTW 5316,
and UP 501. UP 501 is used for the
Terror on the Railroad event, GTW
5316 needs some major [...]

Chris about The Old Bag and the Silver BeaverFri, 03-13-2015 02:06It looks like IRM DOES have about
three streamliner era coaches.
Though two are modernized
heavyweights, and one is more of a
luxury chair car. [...]

Brian L. about The Old Bag and the Silver BeaverThu, 03-12-2015 11:20Ted,
The car started life as a near copy
of CB&Q 1923; our operational RPO
Baggage car. I have not managed to
find the number of the car it was
[...]

Brian L. about The Old Bag and the Silver BeaverThu, 03-12-2015 11:11Not a whole lot. Operational cars
take priority obviously. Hopefully
we'll have the materials we need to
get it on display within a year or
two.

Brian L. about The Old Bag and the Silver BeaverThu, 03-12-2015 11:04If we were to go after any
lightweight coaches, they would
either be junk or cost tens or
hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Postwar lightweights [...]

Roger Kramer about The Old Bag and the Silver BeaverThu, 03-12-2015 10:57Hello Ted, Our info from CB&Q
Hist Society confirms that the
"bag" was once an RPO and was
converted to a baggage car.
Please help the cause by [...]

Roger Kramer about The Old Bag and the Silver BeaverThu, 03-12-2015 10:50Hi Dave, Regarding the Silver Pony
there are plans for future
installation of some windows but
nothing scheduled for the next six
months. We will be [...]